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hanging
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 suspended. 2 (context chess of a piece English) Unprotected and exposed to capture. n. (context uncountable English) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide). v (present participle of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings" [syn: wall hanging ] a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hanging \Hang"ing\, a. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. ``What a hanging face!'' --Dryden. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the ...
Usage examples of hanging.
Perhaps it was merely a reaction from the slaughter in the streets of Addis Ababa, or the memory of the corpses of the sons of the abuna with their eyeballs hanging on their cheeks and their inunature genitals stuffed into their mouths, but over the next few days the desire to see his son became an obsession.
The agents created a makeshift room in the middle of the aircraft by hanging blankets around a series of seats.
Slowly my blind eyes began to focus again, and I saw that it was Akan, climbing through the flames with his charred flesh hanging in strips, his hair and lips burned away, his hands consumed to the bone.
Daulo with his mouth hanging open, Akim only marginally less thunderstruck.
The girl with the large eyes was named Alberta James, and she sat third in from the left Weigand, facing everybody - he hoped - who had been in the theatre when Carney Bolton was killed ticked off her name in his mind Slender girl with reddish - brown hair hanging almost to her shoulders, and big, disturbing eyes - that equalled Alberta James.
As in the inventories of the thirty towns I find no mention either of stockings or of shoes for Indians, with the exception of the low shoes and buckles worn by the Alferez Real, it seems the gorgeous costumes ended at the knee, and that these popinjays rode barefoot, with, perhaps, large iron Gaucho spurs fastened by strips of mare-hide round their ankles, and hanging down below their naked feet.
Then as I hauled inexorably a nose appeared, then a head, then all of the big animal hanging limply by his collar.
She rejoiced that she had missed the family meal, for it was not easy to sit at the table with Grandmother and Cousin Tom and Aunt Alphonsine, unspoken comments on her position hanging from each face like stalactites.
Then rainmen from Amazonas Triste, their skins hanging in enormous folds around them, so that they looked like bundles of wet rags wrapped around monkeys.
Pressing in against it, he slipped the ampule of Marcaine from his shorts and eased it into the pocket of his white jacket hanging within the locker.
And eagerly lending ear, she listened, not showing herself as yet, although she had already seen Marianne and Madame Angelin seated near the doorway, almost among the folds of the hangings.
It was a typical Antillean house, painted yellow even to the tin roof, with burlap windows and pots of carnations and ferns hanging in the doorway.
The two men gasped and drew back as they saw the arachnomorph hanging there by one hand.
He had caught sight of Archimedes, hanging by three great suckered tentacles from the ceiling.
Being on the outermost reaches of the galaxy - and hanging well underneath the galactic plane, where the last vestiges of stars and gas gave way to the emptiness beyond - did not necessarily mean that a place was inaccessible, providing it was close to an arteria portal.